| Description: |
xxi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
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What everyone needs to know
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| Summary: |
"Over the past four decades, the prevalence of autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and birth defects has increased substantially among children throughout the world. Not coincidentally, more than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during this same period. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes. Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know offers an authoritative yet accessible question-and-answer guide to the "silent spring" of environmental threats to children's health. As the burdens of environmental toxins and chronic disease continue to defy borders, this book will be an invaluable addition to the conspicuously sparse literature in this area"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents: |
Introduction -- The changing patterns of disease in children -- The chemical environment -- Children's unique vulnerability to toxic chemicals in the environment -- The links between toxic chemicals in the environment and disease in children -- Lead in the home -- Allergens and respiratory irritants at home -- Endocrine disruptors in the home -- Pesticides and herbicides -- Food -- Toxic chemicals and other hazards in the home -- Daycare -- Schools -- Epilogue. |
| Bibliog.: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject: |
Environmentally induced diseases in children -- United States.
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Pediatric toxicology -- United States.
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Children -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
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| Contributors: |
Landrigan, Mary M., author.
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| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780190662639 (paperback) |
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0190662638 (paperback) |
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